Transcript jeeparty_space_part_two[1]

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What is the Mare?
A 100
Dark spots on the Moon
A 100
Where are the older rocks on
the moon located, on the mare
or lunar highlands?
A 200
Lunar Highlands
A 200
Which phase of the moon
comes directly after the Full
Moon?
A 300
Waning Gibbous
A 300
Which phase of the moon
comes directly after the
Waxing Crescent?
A 400
First quarter
A 400
Which phase of the moon
comes directly after the
Waning Crescent?
A 500
New Moon.
A 500
Which phase of the moon
comes directly before the third
quarter?
B 100
Waning Gibbous
B 100
Why does the moon experience
different phases?
B 200
As the moon orbits Earth we
can see different portions of
the lighted side of the moon.
B 200
List all eight phases of the
moon beginning with the new
moon.
B 300
New moon, waxing crescent,
first quarter, waxing gibbous,
full moon, waning gibbous,
third quarter, waning crescent.
B 300
When viewed from Earth, which phase of the
Moon will be seen when the Moon is at point E?
B 400
Full
Moon
B 400
Why does the Earth’s ocean’s
experience tides?
B 500
Because of the pull of the
moon’s gravitation pull
B 500
If you were to stand on the
beach for a 24 hour period of
time, how many high tides
would you see, and how many
low tides would you see?
C 100
2 high tides, and 2 low tides.
C 100
What does NASA stand for?
C 200
National Aeronautics and
Space Administration
C 200
What are the three different
kinds of telescopes?
C 300
Reflecting, Refracting and
Radio telescopes
C 300
DAILY
Place A Wager
DOUBLE
C 400
Why does the Hubble telescope
produce better images than
telescopes that are on Earth?
C 400
Because it orbits the Earth and
therefore isn’t affected by the
Earth’s atmosphere.
C 400
Name the four spacecrafts that
NASA uses to explore space?
C 500
Flyby, orbiter, lander, probe.
C 500
What are flybys used for?
D 100
Fly by an object and take
pictures.. (data)
D 100
How are orbiters used to study
space?
D 200
They are sent to planets to
orbit for longer periods of time
and to map out the surface as
well as collect other data
D 200
How are landers different
from the other technologies
that NASA uses to explore
space?
D 300
They actually land on and
explore the surface of the
planet.
D 300
Which type of mission often
involves collecting and testing
samples from a planet’s surface?
D 400
Lander
D 400
What spacecraft is best used to
study the atmosphere of a
planet?
D 500
Probes
D 500
Which astronomer originally
declared that the Earth was at
the center of the solar system
and everything revolved
around it?
E 100
Claudius Ptolemy
E 100
Who improved the
telescope, charted the
moon surface and
discovered four moons of
Jupiter?
E 200
Galileo Galilei
E 200
Who in 1687 published the
laws of universal gravitation
E 300
Sir Issac Newton
E 300
Who claimed that the Sun was
the center of the solar system
and that the earth was
spinning on it’s axis?
E 400
Nicolaus Copernicus
E 400
What German astronomer
discovered that the planets move
elliptical?
E 500
Johannes Kepler
E 500
The galaxy that Earth is in is called the
_________________.
F 100
Milky Way
F 100
What does it mean for the
Moon to be in a Gibbous
phase?
F 200
More than half of the near
side is in sunlight.
F 200
This planet also has rings, but
lie on its side so the rings go
around it vertically.
F 300
Uranus
F 300
When is the Sun highest in
the sky near the North Pole?
F 400
on or around June 21.
F 400
This planet is blue because it
is mostly made of a gas called
methane.
F 500
Neptune
F 500
The Final Jeopardy Category is:
What goes up, must come down,
or does it really?
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Which location would have
the greatest number of daylight
hours when Earth is in this position?
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